Urban Slums And Youth Crime Case Study
Topic
The relationship between urban slums and youth crime: a study of selected slums in Jos North local government Area
Name: Elekpa Gabriel Inaku
Mat no: UJ/2014/PGSS/0148
Supervisor: Dr. Gulleng
Introduction
Background
The slum challenge continues to be one of the faces of poverty, inequality and deprivation in many cities in developing countries (WRC 2016). The UN- Habitat defines slums as contiguous settlements that lack one or more of the following five conditions: access to clean water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living area that is not overcrowded, durable housing and secure tenure. (UN- Habitat 2002). Similarly, cities Alliance Action plan describes slums as follows. Slums are neglected parts of cities where …show more content…
According to Egunjobi (2007), many social problems such as prostitution, robbery, alcoholism, domestic violence, social, religious and civil unrest and suicide to mention but few, become more severe in times of high Unemployment. In addition, there is a linkage between unemployment, poverty and crime, when people cannot earn an income from legal, legitimate and social acceptable work/means; they turn to illegal activities. The challenge of social and crime control become a serious issue as the rate of unemployment becomes increasingly unchecked (Alanana, 2003; Oni …show more content…
64 million of these are unemployed while 1.6million are underemployed. Also Doreo (2013) indicated that the unemployment rate in the country is growing at the rate of 16 percent per year, with the youths being most affected and accounting for three times the general unemployment rate. Consequently, the huge youth unemployment situation has forced a large number of the nation’s most productive manpower to be redundant (and susceptible to crime) - resultantly, some of the youths tend to lose their moral conscience in order to meet the basic necessities of life. These categories of youths often see themselves as forgotten generation and are psychologically dejected for being unable to contribute productively to the society. This situation has increasingly encouraged criminality among youths such as armed robbery, murder, assassination and arson (Ogbebor,
The relationship between urban slums and youth crime: a study of selected slums in Jos North local government Area
Name: Elekpa Gabriel Inaku
Mat no: UJ/2014/PGSS/0148
Supervisor: Dr. Gulleng
Introduction
Background
The slum challenge continues to be one of the faces of poverty, inequality and deprivation in many cities in developing countries (WRC 2016). The UN- Habitat defines slums as contiguous settlements that lack one or more of the following five conditions: access to clean water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living area that is not overcrowded, durable housing and secure tenure. (UN- Habitat 2002). Similarly, cities Alliance Action plan describes slums as follows. Slums are neglected parts of cities where …show more content…
According to Egunjobi (2007), many social problems such as prostitution, robbery, alcoholism, domestic violence, social, religious and civil unrest and suicide to mention but few, become more severe in times of high Unemployment. In addition, there is a linkage between unemployment, poverty and crime, when people cannot earn an income from legal, legitimate and social acceptable work/means; they turn to illegal activities. The challenge of social and crime control become a serious issue as the rate of unemployment becomes increasingly unchecked (Alanana, 2003; Oni …show more content…
64 million of these are unemployed while 1.6million are underemployed. Also Doreo (2013) indicated that the unemployment rate in the country is growing at the rate of 16 percent per year, with the youths being most affected and accounting for three times the general unemployment rate. Consequently, the huge youth unemployment situation has forced a large number of the nation’s most productive manpower to be redundant (and susceptible to crime) - resultantly, some of the youths tend to lose their moral conscience in order to meet the basic necessities of life. These categories of youths often see themselves as forgotten generation and are psychologically dejected for being unable to contribute productively to the society. This situation has increasingly encouraged criminality among youths such as armed robbery, murder, assassination and arson (Ogbebor,